“I have greater things I can contribute to the world of science” – Is Terrance Howard quitting acting?

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Actor Terrance Howard recently interviewed with The Grio and had some interesting things to say about where his acting career is headed. For the actor, who is also a well-rounded guitarist, acting may become secondary to his real passion of science. He told The Grio, “I have greater things I can contribute to the world of science than an actor.”  Heeding the advice of veteran actor, Sidney Poitier, Howard has chosen to pursue his latest endeavor of diamond growing. Not a bad venture, as Howard studied chemical engineering at New York’s Pratt institute, before becoming an actor.

In speaking with Poitier Howard said, “I had a conversation with Sidney Poitier. I asked him, ‘Why aren’t you going to do another movie?’ And he said, ‘I’m not going to do another impersonation of myself. I might have ten years left in my life, and I don’t want to waste it doing something I’ve already done before.’ If I can’t learn from a character, if I’m just going in and taking from a bag of tricks and choices for a character, I don’t want to do it. It’s pointless for me because I have to grow as a human being, and I don’t want the safe road.”

Howard has already filed 23 patents for his venture. As a result of wanting to grow, Howard is very particular about the roles that he now takes in Hollywood. Howard explained how his latest role of Alphonse, a mob boss, who is the target of an assassination plot on his life in Dead Man Down, compare to his own.

“He was part of a disenfranchised social group as a young black man.”  “Being a light-skinned black man growing up in the 70’s, black people didn’t appreciate him, white people didn’t appreciate him. When I was a kid I was called a ‘no nation motherfucker’ primarily because I couldn’t hang out with black people; I couldn’t hang out with white people. My character just wants to be accepted. He wants to respected.”

 “As a child, I was always told to turn the other cheek, but turning the other cheek was cowardice.” “I realized I wasn’t turning the other cheek out of strength and love for my brother, I was turning the other cheek because I didn’t want to get hit again. You make those compromises and sooner or later, those hits build up until you have a ton of animosity that you want to throw out. And when you finally let go of that animosity, you find that the world is beautiful.”

Howard says he will stay in Hollywood as long as he is able to personally advance. Howard told The Grio“As human beings we are refusing to evolve and recognize our greater strengths,” he observes. “As an actor, I’m able to transcend into someone else’s life. Dematerialize and materialize back into my own. But I’m still carrying with me the frequencies of them, and learning more about the walks of humanity. I’ve seen so many sides of humanity and I’m learning that you have to reorient yourself, and move within the way of amplitude, and refuse to become an isotope.”

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